'free' output is not really very good indication. I think you should subtract the unused buffer space (13945). I think what's happening is that the dirvish run reads a lot of data from the disk and uses up 13GB of buffer space, which is still 'hot' after dirvish terminates---the system has no way of knowing that you won't need that again soon, so it's not discarded right away, but will be dropped as soon as the buffer space is needed.
cat /proc/meminfo is a better, more detailed summary of what's in your memory. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
